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Category: Opera
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Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82
His opera sat unproduced for decades. Then a piece of it garnered one of the field’s top prizes. Then it sat some more.
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A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse
Piotr Beczala, known as a charismatic singer of Italian operas, is challenging notions of what a Wagner voice should sound like.
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Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom
Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of “Falstaff.”
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Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted
In “Solomon,” performed elegantly at Carnegie Hall by the English Concert and Clarion Choir under Harry Bicket, the chorus is the star.
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Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this opera adaptation of Tolstoy seemed unperformable. But in Munich, it has become an urgent antiwar cry.
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Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera
The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
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‘Norma’ and ‘La Traviata’ Return to the Met Opera
Sonya Yoncheva doesn’t fill out the long lines of “Norma” at the Met, while Angel Blue is a warm, sincere Violetta in “La Traviata.”
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Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight
The tenor Piotr Beczala sings with uncanny serenity and command in the title role of Wagner’s opera, directed by François Girard with little subtlety.
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A New ‘Lohengrin,’ Threatened by War in Ukraine, Comes to the Met
François Girard’s staging, originally a co-production with the Bolshoi Theater, arrives a year after its Moscow premiere, which coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released?
The new collection “Jessye Norman: The Unreleased Masters” raises artistic and ethical questions.
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The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See
With contemporary music dominating new productions and returning in some revivals, the Met is entering a new era of programming.